Do we want to use logind for pam_issue and pam_timestamp

[Luca Boccassi]

> Hi.
> Pam 1.5.3 adds support for using logind rather than utmp for  a
> couple
> of things:
> 
> * Counting the number of user sessions in pam_issue
> 
> *  Determining the time at which the user logged in in pam_timestamp.
> 
> 
> If we did use logind, that would mean a dependency from libpam-
> modules
> to libsystemd.
> 
> It would also mean pam_timestamp would not be very useful on systems
> where logind was not actively used.
> 
> Thoughts?

Yes we definitely should, as this is needed to solve Y2038, in case you
missed it the PAM maintainer talked about this workstream at ASG the
other day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdUmKczNwhg

Various replacements for these legacy interfaces are being put in place
in various projects like PAM, util-linux and so on, and logind is one
of the replacements (there are more).

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi